Tax administration solutions for governments

Around the world, tax authorities face the critical task of ensuring taxpayers fulfill their obligations under tax and transfer pricing rules. This job is not easy, especially when companies use complex ownership and financial structures to evade taxes due under the arm’s length principle.

Moody’s tax solutions help reduce base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) practices to close the tax gap and build trust and confidence in the tax system. Used by over 80 government tax authorities worldwide, our vast global corporate database and AI-driven transfer pricing tools drive efficiency and bolster confidence in tax enforcement decisions. 




Government teams using Moody’s tax and transfer pricing solutions

01 Compliance teams

Compliance teams

Government tax analysts and advisors can administer fair and precise transfer pricing audits for multinational enterprises and high-income, high-wealth individuals in their jurisdictions through access to a verified, standardized database on global corporate accounts. 

02 Data analysts and scientists

Data analysts and scientists

Data analysts and data scientists can access curated and clean data with historical 20+ year depth to support time-bound or trend-based data analyses. Access Moody’s macroeconomic reports to bring color and context to tax revenue analyses.

03 Criminal investigators

Criminal investigators

Financial crime investigators and law enforcement can target and access up-to-date data and analytics on hidden corporate relationships and patterns of high-risk financial behaviors to support investigations into corporate and high income–individual tax evasion and related crimes.

04 Policymakers

Policymakers

Policy researchers and practitioners can access real-time and historical market rates for commodities, services, intercompany loans, customs valuations, and real estate to inform tax policy and program development and support public transparency.

05 Intergovernmental organizations

Intergovernmental organizations

Moody’s financial administration data and analytics supports organizations like the OECD in international cooperation efforts to combat tax avoidance by sharing information and analytics across jurisdictions.  


How we help

01 Firmographic data

Firmographic data

Moody’s Orbis database provides comprehensive, standardized, and up-to-date information on over 625 million companies worldwide, encompassing:

  • Ownership data, including corporate group structure, beneficial owners, historical owners, shareholders, and directors
  • Detailed financials for over 215 million companies including 54 million private companies with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and international financial reporting standards (IFRS) accounting over 20+ years
  • Intellectual property (IP) data including over 180 million patents and trademarks, over 70,000 royalty rate arrangements, and innovation strength indicators
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) data, including 2.2 million deals from 200 countries related to initial public offering (IPO), venture capital and private equity activities, and foreign direct investment (FDI)
02 AI-driven transfer pricing analyses

AI-driven transfer pricing analyses

Moody’s AI-integrated transfer pricing tool uses your defined criteria to, for example, screen companies’ activities, products and services, and industry focus to surface refined comparison groups with rationales for a company’s inclusion or exclusion. Evaluate borrowers’ credit risks through proprietary probability of default and expected loss metrics for better adjustments to comparables.

03 Tax risk management data

Tax risk management data

Tax evasion risk data helps investigators target, identify, and monitor taxpayers requiring further investigation. Moody’s tax risk analytics apply tax scores (corporate group and company specific) and provide information on companies’ ownership structures, financial health, M&A, current and historical IP, connections to high-risk entities, and in-house companies.


Not enough manpower? No problem.

See why we’re the global market leader for tax risk and transfer pricing solutions for governments. Monitor tax and transfer pricing issues impacting your jurisdiction and ensure compliance with ease.




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